diff --git a/srcpkgs/xz/template b/srcpkgs/xz/template
index 1ae792413c4..87f8e89026e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/xz/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/xz/template
@@ -24,6 +24,4 @@ long_desc="
   * A few shell scripts make diffing and grepping LZMA compressed
     files easy. The scripts were adapted from gzip and bzip2."
 
-bootstrap=yes
 subpackages="liblzma liblzma-devel"
-